The Energy Bill is Stuck.
October 13, 2007 at 4:50 pm | Posted in Politics and Policy | 3 CommentsTags: cleantech, energy, energy bill, government, politics
Passing a energy bill through the White House is no easy task. The Senate and the House each passed their own versions of the energy bill in the past few months, so now we’re waiting on the Democratic leaders to appoint a committee to figure out how to meld these two versions of the bill into one. Sounds like that’d be pretty simple to do, right? Um, not exactly.
“Unfortunately … it doesn’t appear that we will be able to get a conference,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said Thursday. “But … that doesn’t mean we won’t be going forward.”
(Good luck Pelosi, you’ll need it.)
The new plan is that Democratic leaders will hold closed-door talks to draft a new energy bill they hope can win approval in both houses of Congress. Pelosi said earlier this week she hopes to pass an energy bill by year’s end.
Better than Spielberg: Solar in Space
October 13, 2007 at 4:16 pm | Posted in Solar | 1 CommentTags: government, military, pentagon, Solar, space
Everyone is investing in solar power these days. There are plenty of options to chose from — traditional, thin-film, concentrated, and solar thermal — but one of the major problems with solar technology is figuring out where to put it.
Sure, houses and other buildings can be adorned with the sun-collecting panels, but that just doesn’t produce enough energy to power our entire country. You can put solar panels in the desert, but then how do you get the power to the folks living in Maine? Here’s another idea — put those solar panels in space.
A Pentagon-chartered report that came out this week is urging the U.S. to take the lead in developing space platforms that can capture sunlight and beam electrical power back to earth. It sounds like a concept taken straight out of a sci-fi novel, but it’s also not a bad idea. Too bad it won’t work.
Welcome to EcoTech Today
October 13, 2007 at 3:42 pm | Posted in Etc. | Leave a commentTags: Biofuels, cleantech, energy, greentech, Solar
Hello and welcome to EcoTech Today. Here you’ll find commentary on cleantech news and all things related to “green technology.”
Why’d I start this blog? Previously I’ve covered clean technology for Red Herring and Earth2Tech.com. I’m no expert on cleantech, but, on the other hand, I know a few things about what’s going on in the sector and what matters. This blog is the result of my decision to leave a full time journalism profession to pursue other endeavors (such as web design and marketing writing). In short, I’ve also decided that I can’t just stop writing about cleantech for good.
Whether you call it cleantech, greentech, or ecotech, technology that helps reduce our nation’s dependence on foreign oil while limiting the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the air everyday is a no-brainer for good business. But, of course, not every business will succeed. And that’s why I, and a bunch of other journalists and bloggers (not to mention investors and entrepreneurs) are spending time and energy trying to sort out this relatively new and exciting sector.
This blog probably won’t offer breaking news, at least not for now. Instead, I’m just going to point to some really interesting things going on in cleantech, and hope that you’ll find this blog a place to discuss what’s going on in “EcoTech Today.”
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